You need to retain context, Kevin.
We're talking about a feature that already exists in VFP.
Some VFP people value the feature. You say not all- but I think you'll find that many/most VFP developers customarily use/used local datasets for various purposes without being concerned that the resulting cursor might overload memory and crash their or their customer's PC.
VFP developers are exhorted to move across to a new environment that does not have this feature, but which may get it soon.
This is completely different from normal incremental improvements that occur in IT.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
